Frances Hesselbein Quotes

Improvement begins with I.

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

I think that you're only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

I do believe in self-help.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

The doer alone learneth.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

The only one who can beat me is me.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.